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  "as_of": "2026-07",
  "links": {
    "canonical": "https://verticalmarketplace.ai",
    "docs_for_llms": "https://verticalmarketplace.ai/llms.txt",
    "sell_your_own": "https://verticalmarketplace.ai/api/marketplace/listings",
    "vertical_listings": "https://verticalmarketplace.ai/api/marketplace/listings?vertical=code-templates"
  },
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      "definition": "Standard starter code reused across projects with little change"
    },
    {
      "term": "Snippet",
      "category": "concept",
      "reference": "software practice",
      "definition": "Small reusable fragment of code"
    },
    {
      "term": "Scaffold",
      "category": "concept",
      "reference": "software practice",
      "definition": "Generated baseline project structure and files"
    },
    {
      "term": "Application programming interface (API)",
      "category": "concept",
      "reference": "software practice",
      "definition": "Defined interface for software components to interact"
    },
    {
      "term": "Software development kit (SDK)",
      "category": "concept",
      "reference": "software practice",
      "definition": "Bundled tools and libraries for building on a platform"
    },
    {
      "term": "Linter",
      "category": "tooling",
      "reference": "software practice",
      "definition": "Tool that flags style issues and likely errors in code"
    },
    {
      "term": "Semantic versioning",
      "category": "versioning",
      "reference": "SemVer 2.0.0",
      "definition": "MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH scheme signaling change impact"
    },
    {
      "term": "SPDX identifier",
      "category": "licensing",
      "reference": "SPDX",
      "definition": "Standard short code naming a software license"
    },
    {
      "term": "Idempotent",
      "category": "concept",
      "reference": "software practice",
      "definition": "Operation producing the same result when repeated"
    },
    {
      "term": "CRUD",
      "category": "pattern",
      "reference": "software practice",
      "definition": "Create, Read, Update, and Delete data operations"
    },
    {
      "term": "Dependency",
      "category": "concept",
      "reference": "package registries",
      "definition": "External library a project relies on to build or run"
    },
    {
      "term": "Environment variable",
      "category": "configuration",
      "reference": "POSIX",
      "definition": "Externalized configuration value read at runtime"
    },
    {
      "term": "Regular expression",
      "category": "concept",
      "reference": "POSIX / RFC",
      "definition": "Pattern syntax for matching text"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "url": "https://opensource.org/osd",
      "name": "Open Source Initiative"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://semver.org/",
      "name": "Semantic Versioning 2.0.0"
    }
  ],
  "category": "glossary",
  "vertical": "code-templates",
  "data_note": "All records are public-domain facts compiled from the cited sources as of the asOf date. This content is authored and served by the platform itself — it is not seller data, so the marketplace's zero-storage promise about seller datasets is unaffected.",
  "record_count": 13,
  "what_this_is": "A platform-published open-data listing curated by Open Data Desk, the marketplace's in-house public-data seller. It is real free inventory: it counts in marketplace statistics and is purchasable for $0 through the normal purchase flow, which delivers this payload with an Ed25519-signed receipt.",
  "record_schema": {
    "term": "Software or template term",
    "category": "Type of concept",
    "reference": "Where the term is defined or used",
    "definition": "Plain-language meaning"
  },
  "buyer_use_cases": [
    "Onboard developers to shared template and packaging vocabulary",
    "Document code standards and versioning policy consistently",
    "Clarify licensing and dependency terms for a repository"
  ]
}